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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Atri Sharma!

As a database engineer and open source committer, Atri Sharma has built a career in tech deeply focused some of today\\u2019s most popular databases. Some of these include PostgreSQL, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Presto and HAWQ.\\xa0

After getting his bachelor\\u2019s from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Atri Sharma has held roles at Amazon, EnterpriseDB, Teradata, Barclays, Pivotal, Microsoft and Intuit. \\xa0

Along the way, he\\u2019s become a prolific contributor to several open source projects like Lucene, PostgreSQL and a handful of other Apache Software Foundation Projects.\\xa0

He\\u2019s also the author of the upcoming book \\u201cPractical Lucene 8\\u201d. Stay tuned as we take a deep dive with Atri Sharma into the world of databases and open source!

-Grant Ingersoll

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Quotes

\\u201cGoogle Summer of Code has been around for a while now. It is designed in a way to introduce college students and academics to the world of open source development.\\u201d

\\u201cOne thing that open source really gives you is the people aspect. You build a network of smart and very accomplished people who can actually mentor and help you grow on the right path.\\u201d

\\u201cWhen I actually decided to commit myself to open source I always thought it would be in my spare time. I never actually anticipated having a job where I would be expected to contribute features back to open source projects.\\u201d

\\u2014Atri Sharma

Key Milestones

1. What is Google Summer of Code
2. How has Atri continually found jobs in open source
3. Atri has spent his career working on some of the hardest challenges in the database world like adding features, making them faster.\\xa0 What\\u2019s it like working deep inside some of the world\\u2019s most heavily used data stores?
4. What are key skills necessary to work as a database engineer?
5. Atri has worked for many of the world\\u2019s largest tech companies. Why did he choose to work in big tech?
6. Atri\\u2019s book \\u2018Practical Lucene 8\\u2019

Additional Resources

Order Atri\\u2019s book \\u2018Practical Apache Lucene 8\\u2019 \\u2013 https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Apache-Lucene-Capabilities-Application/dp/1484263448

Mike McCandless is one of Atri\\u2019s mentors; read his blog here \\u2013 http://blog.mikemccandless.com/

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